Vance's POV

Nadia must have been in shock. She definitely didn't expect that reaction for saying stuff about me getting into someone else's ‘bed’. Maybe if I understood the type of bed she meant and did not immediately overthink it, I wouldn't have reacted the way I did.

My mind just shot past everything she could have meant to Talia's death bed. I didn't even want a remote possibility of her knowing what I was up to when she was gone.

“Do you need ice?” I asked her. I didn't even care if she was going to respond or not, I just felt the need to undo what I did,...